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V THE OREGON. DAILY JOURNAL, P0TLA2IDr OREGOll VEDIIESDAY, DECEMEim H. 1-21. 10 BWiDITrSUSREGTS ARE INDICTED BY D COUNTY GuA URY Tha crtm wav ni reflected Tuesday la tha number of Indictments retarnad ,tn tbe circuit conn against men c&Ajfad itH assault aad rabbery, being- armed frith a dangerous weapon." William Lawter and Cart j Ind wyere Charred with being the pair that held - Hp George 3. Smith ta his tut aide fro eery store and robbed him r $li2, No vember tt The men were picked p by police on the street, on descriptions Tarnished by Smith, r Zawler was also Indicted with Frank Burns-for holding up Harry Lynn at Jake and ' Shy's restaurant Virst street, November 27. They secured jti. Burns was captured after being shot at by Erllnr Christens n. Lawier made his ... escape and wu not taken until after the robbery 6f Smith, . r . CHASE IS RECALLED ' r ' - John Owens and Ray Dahlberic are said to hare held up A. T. Fitslaff at his frocery- n Mississippi avenue, No vember- 25. They were taken in the north end several days later. One of them had a run and FItzlaff Identified them as-his assailants. Owens is said - to have confessed to the police. There was an exciting chase la con nection with - the capture of Joe Dale, "ex" from many prisons, who la said to have -attempted to rob Frank Tanner, ' 215 West Park, November . Tanner saw someone in his room when he awaa- - enedr The man ran downstairs, and R. B. James, who was on the first floor, "'rave chase. They ran through down town streets and James caught Dale by tha coat tall Just as he Jumped onto an electric train at Fourth and Salmon. Deputy -Sheriff Haymaker, who was ; passing by, helped to subdue Dale. : TAXES StrSFKCT'S QVX -James Raglan and. Oscar Turner are charged wlth assaulting and robbing "ElnwS Avery In J. C. Mathews" soft drttik place In the north end. Shortly after the holdup Raglan was seen walking along the street with a run In his hand. Jo seph It Kelly, watchman for tha Portland-Iron works, -covered" Raglan and took the run away from him. Kelly knew nothing of the holdup at the time. so he set Raglan free. Bat-Raglan and ' Turner evident r decided they weren't going" to let any watchman ret away with their . run, so later they came back. - When they did a policeman was with Kelly and the two men Were cap tured, James Hoffman was Indicted for steal ing a $100 microscope from tbe offices of the state board of health." He Is said to have attempted to sell it to several physicians. Golden West Hotel Keteins License on Certain Conditional tTpon ttmaaeg an agreement wlfli W D. Allen and -George P. Moore, proprie tors Of Cbf Golden Wast hotel, that ths Golden West hotel and the Golden West Athletic dub should be separated and a direct ec trance provided to the club rooms itt the hotel basement the City council decided Tuesday afternoon not to revoke the license of ta hotel. Moofa and Allen pointed Out that the hotel aad crab watt tfractloally tha only place in the city where negroes could congregate and that for the sake of theif raca, leniency should ae known. With the exception ef Commissioners Barbur and Bigeiow, Who voted to re voke the license, the council concurred ia their Opinions and stated that 10 days would he allowed to provide for the com plete separation of tha two organisa tions. ; Goethals Is Willing To Study Columbia Basin Irrigation - Spokane, Wash Dad. II. -General George Ooethala, builder of the Panama canal, has Signified a willingness to make a study and report on tha feasibility of the Columbia basin Irrigation project. Dan A. Scott, state director of conserva tion and development, announced Hon day. Director Scott also announced thai dam site explorations on tha Columbia river at Grand coulee will be ended about January 1. and that "preliminary in vestigations indicate a dam site. Whether the Pend Oreille or the Col umbia, river diversions is the most prac tical scheme to use in construction of the Irritation Project Is to be on of the points before General Ooethala, If he is engaged. ' The Columbia basin project proposes to Irrigate L753.000 acres in Eastern Waahlnrton. Present Indications are that General Gbethals will come to Spo kane, probably in January, to begin a personal investigation of tha Columbia basin project House Indorses McNary-SmlthBffl State House,. Salem, Dec JL The hniiu at it afternoon session yesterday adopted senate Joint memorial No. 1. memorialising congress to pass the Mo-Nary-Smlth. reclamation till at ths present session. TOTWG8TERS CUTS OEE&ETTA lon. Dee. 21. The Operetta "Mother Goose's Birthday,' given by grammar school children Friday bight, was a success. Ninety children took part, rais ing money to buy a phonograph for th school. USEFUL GIFTS t 1 '''T, always .WELCOME FLAX GROWERS CAIIRY TROUBLES ,1- T 0 COwlTIEE Sy A. Xk LUdbeek J UUf ism- eiui tut I "IRMMU 1 1 - . State House. Salcb, Xc XL- Griev-1 anoes of Willamette valley flaxgrowers against the sta prison flax plant and opposition of Portland social workers to the site selected for the new boys train ing school by the board of control, were aired before the legislative steering com mittee Tuesday night A large delegation of Marion county farmer appeared before the committee to plead for relief from their financial stringency arising out of the Inability of tha state to pay for flax delivered to the state prison plant last fall. ; . This crop, it was said, represented tha bulk of the Incomes of some of these man for the past year and failure of the stat to meet Its obligations to them It was declared had placed many of them In serious embarrassment HO MOITET AYAILABLB Wardea -Xiouls Compton, manager-of tha flax plant, who was called in to ex plain the state's aid of this situation. declared that the serious depression of the flax market had made it impossible to dispose of the finished product which the state had on hand and that for this reason no money was available to pay for th new crop. The Steering committee indicated its readiness to recommend action by the special session looking to the payment of .these claims, aggregating approxi mately $37,000. Objection to the training school site was voiced by a delegation of social workers headed by Will T. Hale, for six year superintendent of tha State aefcooL Thee objections wer : based on . the proximity of tha att to th state peni tentiary, the stat tuberculosis hospital and other institutions as well as upon th rocky character of the soil ta th tract, which, it was . declared, would make ft impossible to employ tha- aaya In th institution tft advantage m farm work. --r- ""-.? -'r :W-" BILL KILLED ' bill introduced hi tha house by Rp rantativ Uns would have authorised th board ef control to purehaa another site for th school with a part of tM $2Sv.0OO appropriated by tha regular -si on for- th new institution. Th Pleas Of th social workers, howerer. appar ently : faQsd to tmpres - tha- commutes which voted unanimously to teeommand that th linn hill "do .not paaa.". : , Therf Norbiaa -MH, ' authorising- tn transportation Of Students from -outside a sohool. district, wa approved by the eommitte after Stat -BupriBtndnt of School Churchill had spoken in ita favor, declaring that btwea WO aad 1200 pupils now so transportad would be deprived of schooling privilege Un la this plaa waa validated by Utiala tiv acUon. v'' ' ,'"'"' Pat GaHaghef txmflty bill, makinr th "payment of coyote bounties optional with each county instead ox mandatory, aa at th present time, wa also sent on its way with 'tha approval ef th eommitte. At th present Urn it Waa eosti&a- Malheur County fjo.ooo a year to pay for dead coyotes, most of Which were killed la Idaho! and Nevada and brought over -into Oregon, h declared. Doug and Marv on Way to Los Angeles Chicago, Dec il. ! N. S.) 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Comer) Third and Morrison Streets r.. .a .n.Vfss Ma a sal, ifc ail a i i Haat WxttttlWlu u . hxlftefiqe nfilxtrart far?ttmtu i&b&fo i istf ii 'sss si sl sl j Si. ii sbtBBeW sV LsSfaSa-SsBBsm ssWbWA4Bm w xuuitu unup taus? ill? aMSsVssW AiWtf ..A l.IT.J. bbbbibIA bbbWbW a d ut KuSrtjaltlUlWttnX US 1J-: ,( This Special Dinner Served Sunday end Monday -Zto9P.M. 3 u i 1 pi T-r Schools Then and Now A RUDE log structure which stood at the foot of Taylor Street in 1847 housed Portland's first school the nucleus of an educational system which today embraces seventy-six public schools. la 185? the block now occupied by the Portland Hotel was purchased for one thousand dollars sad the Central- School, pictured above, was erected on that spot It is interesting to note that today this same piece of property is conservatively estimated to be worth One million dollars. - School records of lcU0rahoViui"attononce'.ia : Portland's schools of 716, as compared with '43,767 at the present time. Eminent on Portland's earlier school boards Un ,Wk S. Ladd. one of the founders of Ladd & Tilton Bank, is remem bered as one who helped to lay the foundation for Portland's Splendid school systexn.- ; It is but natural that In view of this Ladd & Tilton'Bank and its personnel should and. do feel a more than ordinary interest in Portland's educational advancement) In f act the tame misht be said of every movement : which fosters the interests of the community, for Ladd & Til ton Bank has been , a constructive Influence in ita development through a period ; of zaore than three-score years. , BANK Oldest, in tha Northwest x Washington. , v Third " ' " '.c- ' 11 i ' i :j. - . 'r: LIBERTY COAL & ICE CO. East 629 21 East Third Street Aut. 261-48